Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scramble became even madder. Connecticut State Chairman John Bailey, who had been using Governor Abraham Ribicoff as a Kennedy messenger boy, sent word to Carmine De Sapio: "Tell Carmine he can get out of this with something. He can make this one−if he'll go now." Carmine agreed (he has never forgotten that Estes and the Kefauver committee in 1950 made him out an old pal of Racketeer Frank Costello). The Texas delegation caucused. Albert Gore's Texas backers fought wildly, but the delegation was faced down by grim old Sam Rayburn. "Gentlemen," said Rayburn...
...Switch. The second ballot started, and Kennedy surged handily ahead of Kefauver. The Missouri delegation rushed away to caucus. Connecticut's Bailey grabbed Missouri's Senator Tom Hennings by the lapels and shouted a plea that he turn his Humphrey votes to Kennedy. But Hennings, aware that Kennedy had voted against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports, barked right back: "What about the farm vote?" There were angry stirrings in the Tennessee delegation, and Albert Gore grabbed a microphone to withdraw in favor of Kefauver...
...Adlai Could . . . Hammering home its point, the Bailey paper says that in 1952 Catholic voters "went approximately one out of two for the Republican candidate, whereas in 1948 they had gone two out of three for the Democratic nominee . . . Approximately 30% of these Catholics for Eisenhower were 'shifters'-that is, even on the basis of 1948, when the Catholic vote was already slipping away from the Democrats (the Republicans carried New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan and Maryland), they would have been expected to vote Democratic in 1952. These shifters-whom we shall call 'normally Democratic...
Beyond its obvious implication that a Catholic on the ticket would have helped in 1952, Bailey's paper does not attempt to assign reasons for Stevenson's relatively poor showing among Catholics. Few Democrats believe that Stevenson's divorce lost him any substantial number of Catholic votes. But most Catholic Democratic leaders believe that the general charges of Democratic "softness toward Communism" were especially effective among Catholics. Since those charges are sure to be revived in 1956 to a greater or lesser degree, many a Democrat stands with John Bailey in the belief that a Catholic vice...
...went after it." They asked more questions, studied harder, and made higher grades than any students before them. Many were poor boys, knew education was a privilege, and not just something father paid for. "They had men's heads on men's shoulders," says Acting President Frank Bailey of Ohio's Kenyon College. Adds Harvard's Director of Financial Aid John Monro: "These fellows knocked out the playboy era of American colleges. They set a pace that is still with us-and it is here to stay...